Monday, October 5, 2015

Port of Oakland receives EPA award to upgrade equipment



The Port of Oakland has received $277,885 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to upgrade cargo-handling equipment and reduce exhaust emissions at its TraPac marine terminal, according to a port statement.

TraPac will use the funds to upgrade four rubber-tired gantry cranes and a top-pick. They will be re-engineered with clean diesel engines or exhaust filters. The retrofits and upgrades will result in a 94 percent reduction in carbon monoxide, a 92 percent reduction in oxides of nitrogen, a 44 percent reduction in diesel particulate matter and a 41 percent reduction in hydrocarbons.

"These reductions represent another great step

towards our progress in meeting the port's goal of reducing health risk related to diesel particulate matter emissions by 85 percent," said Richard Sinkoff, director of environmental programs and planning at the Port.

The port said it contacted all four terminal operating companies in Oakland about pursuing the environmental grant. Several expressed interest, but ultimately TraPac stepped forward.

The project, funded under the EPA's National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA), is expected to be complete by December 2016.


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